UMB acts as the Escrow Agent and Trustee for all our fractional life settlement transactions.

❶ The Subscription Escrow Account - The Subscription Escrow Account - UMB acts as escrow agent and accepts the investor’s funds into this account until the investor selects their desired policy or policies. Once policies have been chosen by the investor, the funds are allocated accordingly. Investors who place their funds in the Subscription Escrow Account have the advantage of participating in Reliant Life Shares’ most desirable polices before they become available to the general investor pool.

❷ The RLSS Trust - all policies purchased by Reliant Life Shares are held by the Reliant Life Shares Series Trust (RLSS Trust), with UMB acting as Trustee, for the sole benefit of its fractional life settlement investors.

❸ Premium Reserve Account - once the investor selects their policy or policies, the Trustee transfers their funds from the Subscription Escrow Account to secure their purchase and funds the Premium Reserve Account, which is administered by UMB as Trustee. The Trustee makes certain that all required premiums are paid from the Premium Reserve Account.

Once the policy matures, UMB will file the appropriate claim with the highly-rated life insurance company. The investor, who owns the beneficial interest in the policy, will receive their proportional, pre-determined share of the policy proceeds.

Our minimum investment is $20,000, which can be funded with cash or retirement accounts such as an IRA (Traditional, SEP, Roth) and 401K, 403B, etc. Our office can help facilitate the transfer/rollover process.

We work with any self-directed IRA company of the clients choosing (that will accept the business). These companies act as the custodian for investors with IRA/401K accounts. Upon opening an account, the investor simply transfers or rolls funds from their existing retirement account(s) into the newly established self-directed IRA account. Once funds are received, the investment is then placed in the investor’s IRA account, which then holds the investment. For more information about available IRA custodians please speak to your advisor.

No. A life settlement typically refers to an insured over the age of 65 with a life expectancy of less than 13 years. These may be people who have had a significant change in their overall health, but who aren’t terminally ill. On the other hand, a viatical settlement usually applies when the insured has a life expectancy that is less than two years and is typically terminally ill. Reliant offers investments in life settlements, not viatical settlements.

Very doubtful. Because this investment is an alternative asset, most CPA’s, financial planners, bankers, and retail stock brokers are not familiar with institutional life settlement investments. California investors should seek a reputable proprietary offering company with trained and licensed life agents, such as Reliant Life Shares.

Absolutely. Most of our investors choose to spread their investment over multiple policies with varying maturity dates, similar to how a bond portfolio is “laddered.” For example, an investor can place $100,000 into four different policies, at $25,000 each, with different expected dates of return, diversifying their investment into this alternative asset class.

The only type of polices we offer for investment are universal life polices from highly-rated, U.S.-based, Legal Reserve life insurance companies such as Pacific Life, AXA, and John Hancock to name a few.

Each investment varies and most investments average an expected rate of return of about 12-14% per year. Reliant Life Shares offers investors a fixed return and as such, they do not receive annual payments. As an example, if you were to invest $50,000 on a policy paying a 100% fixed return, and the death benefit paid out as expected at the end of the insured’s seven year life expectancy, then you would receive a lump sum payout of $100,000 which equates to an annual return of about 14%.

Many of our clients chose to put this investment in their living trust, or company’s name. All the investor needs to provide is a copy of the corporate/trust documentation as well as that entity’s tax I.D. number.

California has strict laws regulating this investment and the precise disclosures made to an investor before any investment can be placed. Investors should go online or ask their representative for the sample RLS Case Summary™, which will provide them with essential information so that they can make an informed investment decision. The RLS Case Summary™ is broken down into three sections: Carrier’s Information, Insured’s Information, and Premium Escrow & Investor’s Fixed Returns, and discloses the following information:

Insured's Information includes: Age, Gender, DOB, Life Expectancies as well as a Summary of the Insured’s Medical Condition.

Premium Escrow & Total Fixed Returns: Premium Escrow shows the investor the total amount of premium dollars that Reliant Life Shares will deposit into escrow. Total Fixed Return displays the investor’s Fixed Return Amount upon policy maturity. It will also calculate the annual rate of return based on the projected LE.

Once the policy matures, UMB will file the appropriate claim with the highly-rated insurance company. The investor, who owns the beneficial interest in the policy, will receive their proportional, pre-determined share of the policy proceeds.

Yes. The fractional LifeShare™ investment would pass to your heirs like any other asset you currently own.

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About Life Settlements

A life settlement is the purchase of an existing life insurance policy, by a third-party investor, for less than the face value but more than cash surrender value of the policy. Originally designed for institutional or corporate investors, the life settlement market is now available to individual investors by way of fractional life shares.